How to Install ‘IPFire’ Free Firewall Linux Distribution

Step 6: Set DNS and Gateway Settings

27. Choose DNS and Gateway Settings to configure the DNS and gateway. Here we can provide a Manual DNS or it will get assigned because we used DHCP in above step. If you need to be relief from these headache? Just leave this blank.

Select DNS and Gateway

DNS IP Settings

Choose DONE to exit from DNS settings.

Step 7: DHCP server Configuration

28. We need to configure DHCP settings for our GREEN interface for LOCAL/INTERNAL interface. To get IP for client machine’s from DHCP.

DHCP pool range will be from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.100

Configure DHCP Settings

29. We are almost completed our setup, Choose OK to complete IPFire setup.

IPFire Setup Completed

Step 8: Post Installation Setup

30. After reboot, we will get the Command line access using root credentials which we provided during setup at step #15 above.

USERNAME : root
PASSWORD : redhat123$

IPFire Commandline Access

31. To access the web interface use the below URL, Which we used for the GREEN interface local/internal will be used for the WEB interface. Enter the username as “admin” and password that we’ve set at #step 16 above.

https://192.168.1.1:444/

IPFire Web Access

32. Once you logged in, you will get the Dashboard of the web Interface in IPFire.

Conclusion

We have seen how to protect our office or home network with IPFire firewall/Router, IPFire was a German based Linux distribution only focused on security. Hope you have found this article simple and easy to install and configure firewall for your office or home environment. Don’t forget to fire your comments below after working around with IPFire..

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16 Responses

I need some help immediately please, I am trying to setup ipfire in my virtual environment and got to the stage where set-password is required but my keyboard won’t input anything in the field. Is there any special key to use for typing in there?

I’ve been using ipfire as my production firewall appliance for about 5 years. It is very simple yet very powerful.

I moved to ipfire from ipcop years ago because of the active development and modern kernel. Ipcop was secure and functional but was just kind of stagnating on innovation and moving forward to operate on today’s hardware.

I’m surprised I don’t see more about ipfire in any the tech sites I visit.

My Red IP is 133.82.0.4/24 and Green IP is 133.82.0.1/20.
IPFIRE is running on NAT.
In above condition 133.82.0.xxx/20 IP address is not working in Green LAN.
I want to disable the NAT and enable the routing.
What are the procedure for disable the NAT and enable the routing between green to red.